IDENTIFICATION

Date: April 26th, 2016

Topic: Narrative Tenses
Goal: Recognize and use narrative tenses properly to tell a story.
EXPLORATION

What are narrative tenses?

Which tenses do you think can be narrative?

http://duoulala.blogspot.com.co/2013/07/narrative-text-definitionpurposes.html
CONCEPTUALIZATION & CONTEXTUALIZATION
Narrative tenses are the tenses that we use to talk about past events and to
tell stories. Past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect
continuous are all narrative tenses. Also, the expressions "used to" and
"would" plus infinitive can be used to talk about the past.
We use the past simple to talk about the main events of the story.
The audience watched the live broadcast in horror.
We use the past continuous to describe other events and actions that were in
progress at the time of events.
A woman was lying on a surgical table.
We use the past perfect to show that a past action took place before another
past action.
Frida had finished school and was travelling home when her bus crashed.
was travelling
|-------------->|
---------------X---------------X---------------X------>
< ---past

finished school

^
crashed

now

We use "used to"+infinitive-for actions and states- to describe things we did in

the past but do not do any more.
My father used to smoke a lot, but he gave up some years ago.
IMPLEMENTATION
http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/hd1/english/narrate/narrtense.htm
http://www.ice.urv.es/eoiact/level3/narrativetenses1.htm
EVALUATION
Exercises
1. Read the following article, choose the best verb forms to complete the text
and the best headline: Artist turns off the tap or Water protest to end.
Artist Mark McGowan (1) said/had said that he (2) was expecting/had
expected his exhibition The running tap at the House Gallery in south-east
London, to close in the next few days.
The exhibition (3) started/was starting one month ago when Mark (4)
opened/was opening a tap in the kitchen area of the gallery and (5) left/had
left it running. McGowan (6) intended/had intended to leave the tap running
for a year, but after receiving a letter from the Times Water Authority, the
gallery owners (7) were thinking/had thought about shutting the exhibition
down. The exhibition (8) was wasting/has wasted over 700 litres of water
every hour, and over half a million litres (9) were already/had already been
used.
McGowan (10) was designing/had designed his artwork to draw attention to
the way that people waste water.
2. Put the verb in brackets into the past simple, past continuous or past
perfect. Sometimes more than one tense is possible.

I (1) ________ (walk) home yesterday when I (2) ________ (see) a group of people
in front of the church. They (3) ________ (laugh) and one man with a video
camera (4) ________ (film) something, so I (5) ________ (go) to have a closer
look. Three people (6) ________ (hold) long sticks and they seemed to be
attacking a traffic warden!

The man with the video camera (7) ________ (notice) the look of horror on my
face. He (8) ____ ____ (come) over to me and (9) ________ (explain) that it was a
piece of performance art. The traffic warden was really an artist called Mark
McGowan, who (10) ________ (dress) up in a wardens uniform. He (11) ________
(advertise) the event on a website, inviting people to come along and hit him
with wooden sticks.
https://yerart.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/grammar-narrative-tenses/
RESEARCH
http://www.eltbase.com/notes.php?id=201
http://lolawannalearnenglish.blogspot.com.co/2013/12/narrativetenses.html
http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm